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Eutropis floweri (TAYLOR, 1950)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymMabuya floweri TAYLOR 1950: 487
Eutropis floweri — DAS 2008
Eutropis floweri — BATUWITA et al. 2020 
DistributionSri Lanka

Type locality: Ceylon, 12 mi N Trincomalee.  
Reproductionoviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: INHS (= UIMNH), originally given as EHT-HMS 30507 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A small, terrestrial species; scales for the most part tricarinate having transparent part of eyelid broken into three or four short quadrangular scales; frontal short, equal to or minutely less than its distance from tip of snout, shorter than combined length of interparietal and frontoparietals; no postnasal; supra- nasals separated; prefrontals and parietals also separated; first chinshields separated; six superciliaries; a well-defined, swollen (glandular?) area on posterior part of thigh, covered with large, irregular, more or less pointed scales; 30 scale rows about body, the 12 ventral scale rows smooth, the 18 dorsal and lateral scale rows heavily keeled (Taylor 1950: 487). 
CommentSimilar species: Eutropis greeri is illustrated by Somaweera and Somaweera (2009) in figs. 255A, B (identified as E. floweri) and fig. 257A (identified as E. madaraszi). 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Das, Indraneil; de Silva, Anslem; Austin, Christopher C. 2008. A new species of Eutropis (Squamata: Scincidae) from Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 1700: 35-52 - get paper here
  • Smith, Hobart M.;Langebartel, David A.;Williams, Kenneth L. 1964. Herpetological type-specimens in the University of Illinois Museum of Natural History. [type catalogue] Illinois Biological Monographs (32): 1-80 - get paper here
  • Somarathna, Lankani 2026. Catalogue of wet preserved Skinks specimens deposited in the Colombo National Museum, Sri Lanka. Conference paper - get paper here
  • Somaweera, R. & Somaweera, N. 2009. Lizards of Sri Lanka: a colour guide with field keys. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 304 pp.
  • Taylor, E.H. 1953. A review of the lizards of Ceylon. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 35 (12): 1525-1585 - get paper here
  • Taylor, Edward H. 1950. Ceylones lizards of the family Scincidae. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 33 (2): 481-518 - get paper here
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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